Honorable Agnes Lasuba. (Courtesy).

Veteran politician and national parliamentarian, Agnes Kwaje Lasuba passed away at her home in the Kenyan capital Nairobi where she had been receiving medical treatment, a parliament source has said.

Honorable Agnes is a senior member of the SPLM party whose legislative career spanned back to 2005.

The former national Minister of Gender died on Saturday at the age of 76 years.

Parliament spokesperson John Agany confirms that Hon. Agnes suffered a short illness prompting her transfer to the Kenyan capital.

Agany told Eye Radio on Monday that the body of the deceased lawmaker would be flown back to the country soon.

“With great sorrow and deep regret, I announce that the national parliament has lost Agnes Lasuba due to a short illness that she was actually taken to Nairobi for,” Agany said.

“As the national legislature, we will invite our nation to mourn with us, and I believe the leadership is also preparing to bring her body back to the country.”

“We are sorry. God has given and taken. Ler her name be glorified.”

Kenya’s Star newspaper quotes police and the family as saying the late politician was flown to Nairobi on September 10 and placed under home-based medical care.

She reportedly died from diabetes and pressure conditions, but an autopsy report is still pending.

– Obituary – 

Lasuba was born in Torit, the capital of Eastern Equatoria State.

She attended school from 1953 through 1964, and in 1964, her family went into exile in 1964, causing Lasuba to take a break from schooling.

She returned to secondary school in 1965, attending Nabingu Secondary School. She then attended Uganda College of Commerce and Administration, receiving a degree in secretariat and management in 1969.^[1]

She married Joseph Oduho, a South Sudanese politician, in May 1970 in a ceremony in Uganda. The pair returned to Sudan in 1972 after the Addis Ababa Agreement.^[1]

Lasuba began working as a secretary to the president High Executive Council in 1974.

In 1976 she became third secretary of the Regional Assembly and the secretary general of the Women’s Union, Southern Region, Juba.

From 1998 to 2003, Mrs. Lasuba was active in the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) while still living in the United Kingdom.

She returned to Juba in 2003 and took part in the peace talks, which would eventually lead to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005.